April 2016 Update for Cireson Asset Management

Posted by Melanie Ryan

May 18, 2016

The product team here at Cireson is always listening to you (our customers), and in the April update to the Cireson Asset Management (CAM) Solution, our 3rd in the last 6 months, is focused on squashing bugs you have reported to us through the Cireson Support Portal. You can certainly read through the list of fixes below, or simply watch this short video tour!

Release Notes

You can always find the release notes for CAM in the download of the latest build, as well on the Cireson Support Portal,

Description

This release of Cireson Asset Management squashes bugs in the Cireson Asset Management solution. Fixes are described below, sorted by category:

General

License client has been upgraded to 1.0.5892.25169

All AM instance pickers will NOT show objects with a status ‘Pending Delete’.

Deleted items showing in AM search results have not been removed

Consumable

Fixed available count calculations

Removed auto calculate checkbox in consumables. These are no longer needed as count calculations are now automatic.

A dialog box will now appear if any of the counts are changed on a consumable. It will prompt for an entry in the consumable action log.

Consumable tasks “Decrease Available Count”, “Increase Available Count”, and “Update Consumable” have been removed. These are no longer needed as count calculations are now automatic.

Asset Management Import

LDAP queries with custom mappings were only updating the first object retrieved. AMI will now update all objects appropriately.

License/SWA fixes:

If a license is updated through the Software Assets form, updated information will now automatically show in the SWA without a refresh.

If allocated seats are changed on license it will automatically recalculate seats remaining.

Workflow

Adding the following registry entry will now prevent a workflow from deleting model or manufacturer data on a software asset or hardware asset: